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’70s Giallo ‘The House with Laughing Windows’ Comes to 4K UHD from Arrow Video
The House with Laughing Windows will be released on 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray on December 2 via Arrow Video.
The 1976 Italian giallo thriller has been restored in 4K from the original camera negative with HDR10 and the original lossless mono Italian soundtrack with English subtitles.
Special features:
- 4K restoration from the original camera negative, graded by Arrow Films
- 4K (2160p) UHD Blu-ray presentation in HDR10
- Restored original lossless mono Italian soundtrack
- Newly translated optional English subtitles
- Audio commentary by critics Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and Josh Nelson (new)
- Audio commentary by critics Eugenio Ercolani and Troy Howarth (new)
- Painted Screams – Feature-length documentary with co-writer/director Pupi Avati, co-writer Antonio Avati, assistant director Cesare Bastelli, actors Lino Capolicchio, Fancesca Marciano, Giulio Pizzirani, and Pietro Brambilla, production designer Luciana Morosetti, assistant camera operation Toni Scaramuzza, sound mixer Enrico Blasi, and Emanuele Taglietti, son of assistant production designer Otello Taglietti (new)
- La Casa e Sola – Visual essay by critic Chris Alexander (new)
- The Art of Suffering – Visual essay by critic Kat Ellinger (new)
- Italian theatrical trailer
Also included:
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Peter Strain
- Double-sided foldout poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Peter Strain
- Perfect bound booklet featuring new writing by Matt Rogerson, Willow Maclay, Alexia Kannas, Anton Bitel, and Stefano Baschiera
Art restorer Stefano arrives at an isolated Italian village to repair a fresco depicting the agonizing martyrdom of Saint Sebastian. The original painter was a death artist – a madman so obsessed with mortality that, according to whispered rumors, he tortured his models in their final moments of life.
When people begin to turn up dead, Stefano is forced to consider the possibility that the artist has returned to continue his brutal career – and that he is the primary target.
Pupi Avati directs from a script he co-wrote with Antonio Avati, Gianni Cavina, and Maurizio Costanzo.
Lino Capolicchio, Francesca Marciano, and Gianni Cavina star.
After scaring up a strong theatrical run, Oddity director Damian McCarthy’s Hokum heads home to Digital this week.
Settle in for a spooky supernatural chiller as Hokum arrives on all Digital platforms to rent or own beginning June 2, followed by a Blu-ray/4K Ultra HD Combo and DVD release on August 11, 2026.
Adam Scott (“Severance”) stars in Hokum as reclusive novelist Ohm Bauman. When he retreats to a remote Irish inn to scatter his parents’ ashes, the staff’s tales of an ancient witch haunting the honeymoon suite take hold of his mind. Disturbing visions and a shocking disappearance draw Ohm into a nightmarish confrontation with the darkest corners of his past.
Peter Coonan (“The Alienist: Angel of Darkness”), David Wilmot (“Station Eleven”), Florence Ordesh (“Departure”), Michael Patric (“Frontier”), Will O’Connell (“Game of Thrones”), Brendan Conroy (“Bodkin”), and Austin Amelio (“The Walking Dead”) also star.
Get a peek at the upcoming physical media release below, including a few special features.
Spooky Pictures’ Roy Lee (Weapons) & Steven Schneider (Insidious) produce alongside Image Nation’s Derek Dauchy (Late Night with the Devil), Tailored Film’s Ruth Treacy, Julianne Forde, & Mairtín de Barra, and Cweature Features’ Ken Kao & Josh Rosenbaum.
I wrote in my review for Bloody Disgusting, “A quaint Irish hotel with a deeply haunted history awaits an American writer in McCarthy’s third outing, continuing his streak for folkloric tales of supernatural karma and spine-tingling terror with a dark sense of humor.”
What’s next from Damian McCarthy? He’s currently writing a haunted house movie, but recent comments suggest he may be moving into other genres beyond that upcoming project.
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